Exam question 2 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

Identify the vitamin whose deficiency caused scurvy among sailors.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, deficiency · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: vitamin, scurvy

This is exam question 2 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vitamin	det
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 deficiency	nmod:poss
5	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caused	nsubj
6	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vitamin	acl:relcl
7	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caused	obj
8	among	among	ADP	_	9 sailors	case
9	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caused	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the vitamin					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme
2	cause	past	deficiency	scurvy				among sailors	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scurvy=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Vitamin A

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 Vitamin	det

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Vitamin C

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 C	compound
2	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Vitamin D

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 D	compound
2	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Vitamin B

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 B	compound
2	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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